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* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	*Hyla	Will find all uses of ". . . hyla" anywhere in a record: e.g., Hyla, Hylidae, Plectrohyla, Ptychadena hylaea, Adenomera hylaedactyla
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Search tool	Example of search string in box	What that means to the database
* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	Hyl*	Will find all uses of "Hyl . . ." anywhere in a record: e.g., Hylarana, Hyla, Hylidae, Hylinae, Hylaedactyla.
* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	*Hyla	Will find all uses of ". . . hyla" anywhere in a record: e.g., Hyla, Hylidae, Plectrohyla, Ptychadena hylaea, Adenomera hylaedactyla
Single word	Hyla	Will find all records that contain stand-alone uses of Hyla: e.g., Hyla, Hyla arenicolor
Strings of words without quotation marks	Lithobates pipiens	Interprets this as "Lithobates OR pipiens" so will find the union of all records that contain either "Lithobates" or "pipiens": e.g., Lithobates omiltemanus, Hylorana pipiens
Strings of word with quotation marks	"Lithobates pipiens"	Interprets this as "Lithobates AND pipiens" so will return all records that have the character string "Lithobates pipiens" anywhere within a record: e.g., all members of the Lithobates pipiens complex.
AND statement. Means that the results of the search must include both words held together by an AND	Lithobates AND pipiens	Same as "Lithobates pipiens"
OR statement. Means that the results of the search will all records that have either of the terms held together by an OR	Lithobates OR "Costa Rica"	Recovers all records that contain the word "Lithobates" or "Costa Rica": 402 records inasmuch as this will include all records for the entire amphibian fauna of Costa Rica
Combining Boolean operators within the Basic Search box (AND, OR, NOT, quotation marks)	Lithobates AND "Costa Rica" NOT forreri	Recovers only records that contain the word Lithobates AND "Costa Rica", but excludes any record that contains the word "forreri" in any part of the record: 9 records
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Allobates kingsburyi (Boulenger, 1918)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea > Family: Aromobatidae > Subfamily: Allobatinae > Genus: Allobates > Species: Allobates kingsburyi

Phyllobates kingsburyi Boulenger, 1918, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 2: 427. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.14.3–6; BMNH 1947.2.14.5 designated lectotype by Silverstone, 1971, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 215: 7. Type locality: "El Topo, Rio Pastaza, [Provincia Pastaza,] Eastern Ecuador, altitude 4200 feet".

Phyllobates intermedius Andersson, 1945, Ark. Zool., 37A(2): 5. Holotype: NHRM 1903, according to Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 90. Type locality: "Rio Pastaza", Provincia Pastaza, Ecuador. Synonymy by Cochran, 1955 "1954", Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 206: 14; Coloma, 1995, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 87: 37.

Colostethus intermedius — Edwards, 1971, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 84: 148; Edwards, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 30: 5–7.

Colostethus kingsburyi — Edwards, 1971, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 84: 148.

Allobates kingsburyi — Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 162.

Common Names

Kingsbury's Nurse Frog (Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: xxxi).

Rana Nordriza de Kingsbury (Spanish: Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: xxxi).

Kingsbury's Rocket Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 48).

Distribution

Foothills and adjacent lowlands of the Cordillera Oriental in the Amazonian region of Napo, Tungurahua, Pastaza, Zamora Chinchipe, and Morona Santiago provinces, Ecuador, 492–1300 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador

Endemic: Ecuador

Comment

Castillo-Trenn, 2004, J. Herpetol., 38: 600–606, reported on larval morphology. Castillo-Trenn and Coloma, 2008, Internatl. Zoo Yb., 42: 58–70, reported on the advertisement call as part of a study of reproductive behavior. Prior to the revision of Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299, placed in the Colostethus brunneus group (Group II) of Rivero, 1990 "1988", Mem. Soc. Cienc. Nat. La Salle, 48: 3–32. Removed from the synonymy of Colostethus latinasus (Dendrobatidae) by Savage, 1968, Copeia, 1968: 755, where it had been placed by Dunn, 1924, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 151: 1–17. See account by Coloma, 1995, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 87: 37. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Colostethus kingsburyi) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 223, was well as comment by L.A. Coloma that based on molecular evidence this taxon represents a species complex. Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: 58–62, provided an account, with photographs, which summarized identification, adult and larval morphology, systematics, natural history, distribution (including a dot map for Ecuador), conservation, and (on pp. 540–547) the advertisement call.

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